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May 13th, 2014 - International News

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian Islamic extremist leader says nearly 300 abducted schoolgirls will not be seen again until the government frees his detained fighters.

A new video from the group Boko Haram purports to show some of the girls and young women chanting Quranic verses in Arabic. The barefoot girls look frightened and sad and sit huddled together wearing gray Muslim veils. Some Christians among them say they have converted to Islam.

It is the first video evidence of the girls and young women since they were kidnapped from a northeastern school in the pre-dawn hours of April 15 — four weeks ago.

In the video, two of the girls are brought to the front and questioned by an unseen man and asked why they converted from Christianity to Islam. The nervous girl responds that she had not been on the right path and is now on the path to pleasing Allah.

She looks to be in her early teens. She says her real name has been changed to Halima. Like the other girls, she is wearing a hijab, a piece of cloth that covers the whole body and the back of head but not the face.

A second girl, who looks in her mid-teens, is asked if the girls had been ill-treated in any way. She denies it, saying they experienced no harassment "except righteousness."

May 29th, 2014 - Sports News

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Josh Donaldson hit a game-ending, three-run homer off Joe Nathan with one out in the ninth inning and Scott Kazmir pitched his first complete game in nearly eight years as the...